The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is "fixed" in ...

Asteroid hurtling toward Earth found to be teeming with building blocks of life: researchers

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...
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NASA Finds the Building Blocks of DNA in Samples From Distant Asteroid, But Also… Gum

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...
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Asteroid Bennu samples carry mysterious space gum, sugars, and a ton of stardust

Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Fossil fuel emissions still rising in world's latest 'carbon budget' despite renewable energy growth

Fossil fuel use is still growing globally but total human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are expected to dip slightly by the end of 2025 because of a decline in deforestation. But renewable ...

What is 'space gum?' New analysis of Bennu asteroid yields surprising finds

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...
Nature

Kojic Acid Biosynthesis from 1-C

Challenger, F., Klein, L., and Walker, T. K., J. Chem. Soc., 10 (1931). For a recent review, see Foster, J. W., “Chemical Activities of Fungi”, 437 (Academic ...